![]() ![]() ![]() Contents: Black saints go marching in: Yoruba art and culture in the Americas - The sign of the four moments of the sun: Kongo art and religion in the Americas - The Rara of the universe: Vodun religion and art in Haiti - Round houses and rhythmized textiles: Mande-related art and architecture in the Americas - Emblems of prowess: Ejagham art and writing in two worlds. Knox 1Chase KnoxProfessor Greg CarrAfro 115-012 October 2020Book Reflection Essay: The Flash of the SpiritThe Flash of the Spirit, by Robert Farris Thompson. ![]() Explores how five African civilizations, Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande, and Cross River, have influenced and been portrayed in the aesthetic, social, and meta-physical traditions of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil, and other places in the New World. Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy : Thompson, Robert Farris: .uk: Books. Black octavo, red spine, xvii, 317 pages, b&w illustrations 21 cm. ![]() Extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot' a gentle bump and small creases to rear corner rubbing to corners, light soiling to fore-edge, very gentle rubbing to rear cover-edge, faint page edge wear to three pages, crisp, white pages in tight binding, else Near Fine(-). ![]()
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